[Osx-nutters] Denial

[mmalc crawford]

On Aug 16, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Stefano Mori wrote:

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> On 2007-Aug-17, at 01:12, mmalc crawford wrote:
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>> Umm, isn't that what I just said ("But one of the main reasons this
>> will be a contentious issue is because of the spectre of words like
>> eugenics")?
> Yes you did and I just wanted to spell it out for the sake of making
> the point that, the science was used in damaging ways.
>
And this is news because...?
Literature, painting, religion etc. etc. are all used in damaging ways.


>> But you're mixing ethics, societal taboos, and science (not to  
>> suggest
>> that science shouldn't be sensitive to the others).  Work with
>> numerous other species (and genera and kingdoms) already shows that
>> selective breeding largely works...
> The global warming debate also becomes about ethics, so there's still
> a good parallel.
>
But that's not the point...

mmalc